Ecosystem accounting for measuring total income in private and public agroforestry farms

Autor: Alejandro Caparrós, Paola Ovando, José L. Oviedo, Pablo Campos
Přispěvatelé: Junta de Andalucía, Ovando Pol, Paola [0000-0001-6915-5826], Oviedo Pro, José Luis [0000-0003-2043-5020], Caparrós Gass, Alejandro [0000-0002-2841-3566], Ovando Pol, Paola, Oviedo Pro, José Luis, Caparrós Gass, Alejandro
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
instname
ISSN: 1389-9341
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2016.06.031
Popis: We develop an ecosystem accounting system to estimate individual products' biophysical and total income indicators. The ecosystem products are grouped into private and public activities and measured consistently with the principle of exchange value of the standard national accounts. Private products comprise timber, cork, firewood, conservation forestry, grazing, livestock, hunting, crops and private amenity, while the public ones comprise mushrooms, carbon, water, public recreation, landscape and threatened biodiversity services. Our accounting approach revises and extends the standard agricultural and forestry sector income accounts by incorporating intermediate products, natural growth, private amenity, carbon sequestration and capital gain. Furthermore, our approach extends the standard government sector income accounts by including the economic value of the consumption of public final products delivered by ecosystems on the basis of simulating prices for non-market products. We apply the agroforestry accounting system to a group of 39 agroforestry farm case studies in Andalusia, Spain. We provide results for two agroforestry farm groups: publicly owned coniferous forest and privately owned native hardwood forest (dehesa). Total income attained, on average, €140 per hectare in coniferous forests and €352 per hectare in dehesas. Cork natural growth and private amenity are the main products explaining private income in dehesa farms. Forestry activity products, particularly timber natural growth and the intermediate products of conservation forestry, are the main sources of private income in the coniferous forests. Public incomes from non-market products are the main contributors of total income in dehesas and forests.
The authors thank the Agency for Water and Environment of the Regional Government of Andalusia for the financial and field work support for the RECAMAN PROJECT (Contract NET 165602). Paola Ovando acknowledges the support of the European Commission under the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship Programme (PIEF-2013-621940), while reviewing this paper at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Economics, London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE)
Databáze: OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz: